HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 6

HUTT BOROUGH COUNCIL.

4 meeting,\)f■ the Hutt Borough. Coimcil' iras; held on Monday' evening, -. there ■being, present The Mayor. (Mr. E: P. Bunny JVand . Councilors l Anson,- Mowbray, -Barlow, Kempthorne, Hayes, 'Baldwin, I'earce,;and.Slacaskill. -.v-v'.;,,:::-.council .-agreed- ;to i the ' proposal by .the Petono Borough Council that the .representatives -. of . the respective:- cpnnciis should meet, in open conference on tlie subject' of • amalgamation. - J Ills ."Worship v.-as appointed to act ; as delegate from, the" council at' tho Harbour; ISoard. election.

The.tender- of Sir. G. 11. Savage for the supply of dog collars at os. -Gd. -per, dozen was -accepted. .; It was resolved to accedo to the request of the Lands and Survey Department that th'e council pay,the'wages (10s. -per; day) of one' of'vthe two men required to work of, defining and adiusting'tho'standard survey- blocks.... I The engineer's;, report, which, read as follows,-, was adopted:—The. fitting-up '; of; th o ; hydraulic engines' to tho.intercepting chamber to the septic tank-.and' outfall, had- been completed;, expenditure,;incur. red in, erecting the engines, Fourteen .connections; had .been made with the water mains ,since ■ last, Report,; matin? .a total of 513 to date.. ; In . accordance witi; the; council's .instructions: the extension' .of the watqr main.at White's Line East 'was; put in hand, and .was now. com-' .pleted. A.'c(imrii?nceineht' had been made with ,the. .-street; formation of. the' Armitiage;,Camp Road dedication,, and the work was well ih hand.With the; straightening; of''the' fence .'along the railway embankment to- the north' of the late Mr. Fitzherbertfs residence; on the ' Western Hntt-.Koad'.' the, work 1 of bringing up the footpath 'to its proper level .had been put in hand and completed; The,wholo of the creeks and side drains had been. cleaned out. 'He proposed tto 1 commence'the ta'rf ring'; of -the footpaths; during the"- ensuing; week.'• ' ". ' - ■

■ ' Following upon a',notice' of. motion by Councillor Clere, it was resolved that ten-' ders, to close on, January 29,: be .invited for the first section of : tho; sewage drainage works on the eastern 'side ;of the main. ■ ■ . s : - ■ ■ , .- '"'

,: On ,tho motion of Councillor' Baldwin', : thecOuncil agreed upon the setting-up of a committee—the Mayor and Councillors Baldwin and Anson—to' report .upon, the question , of. household connections; with the. new sewage, scheme. ... ;.i